Alumna Carol Stein re-appointed Director of Publications at ASCSA
Alumna Carol Stein, recipient of an MA in Archaeology in 2015, has been re-appointed to the position of Director of Publications at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Congratulations Carol!
Laura Heath-Stout (GRS ’19) was awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship
Laura Heath-Stout (GRS ’19) was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for the project “Career Arcs: Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology.” While a Fellow, she will have an affiliation with UMass-Boston for the 2021-2022 academic year and will work on revising her dissertation into a book, which is under contract with […]
Alum, David Walton publishes his obsidian use-wear analyses
Alum, David Walton new article published online that presents his obsidian use-wear analyses from a site called Altica (1250-800 BC), Mexico, which is the earliest settlement documented for the Teotihuacan Valley. If you would like to check out the paper in full, you can do so through his faculty website (https://lssc.instructure.com/courses/7380/pages/home) tldr: they were doing […]
Curtis Runnels and Justin Holcomb (GRS’20) published article
Curtis and Justin have published an article in the journal Quaternary International titled “Deposit-centered archaeological survey and the search for the Aegean Palaeolithic: A geoarchaeological perspective.” Congratulations! Article Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.043 Abstract: Recent archaeological discoveries from the Greek islands of Crete and Naxos point to the presence of hominins in the Aegean Basin beginning at least in […]
Carolyn L. White (GRS’02) published a new book!
Carolyn L. White received her PhD from Boston University Archaeology in 2002. Carolyn is the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historical Preservation, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Historical Preservation Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno. Congratulations to Carolyn on her book, “The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City.” […]
Alum Stefan Cleasson (CAS’92) interviewed by New York Times
Stefan worked with Professor Beaudry at the Spencer-Peirce-Little site in Newbury and after he got his PhD at U New Hampshire worked for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Honolulu (where our PhD Veronica Keyes works) and now has his own consulting business, operating out of the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. Dr. Stefan […]
Four alumni publish in Advances in Archaeological Practice
Regional Ways of Seeing: A Big-Data Approach for Measuring Ancient Visualscapes Natalie M. Susamann (GRS’19) Published online in Advances in Archaeological Practice: 16 April 2020, pp. 1-18 Affording Archaeology: How Field School Costs Promote Exclusivity Laura E. Heath-Stout (GRS’19), Elizabeth M. Hannigan (CAS’19) Published online in Advances in Archaeological Practice: 13 April 2020, pp 1-11 […]
Emily Johnson (CAS’17) recipient of NSF Fellowship
Good news! Our 2017 BA grad Emily Johnson (now a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, https://www.anth.ucsb.edu/people/emily-johnson) is the recipient of a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (https://www.nsfgrfp.org)!! They only awarded 7 in archaeology this year, nationwide, so it’s intensely competitive. The fellowship funds three years of her graduate research. Congratulations Emily!
Photos of Jane Baxter (CAS’93) talk “Reflections on 25 years of the Archaeology of Childhood”
Dr. Jane Eva Baxter is an alumnus of Boston University (CAS 1993) where she majored in Archaeological Studies. She graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2000 and that same year began as a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at DePaul University. Dr. Baxter is an award-winning […]
Katie Berlin (CAS’20) featured in CAS News – Arts and Sciences
“Katie Berlin (GRS’20) came to BU after graduating from UC Berkeley because she knew the archaeology program in the Department of Anthropology had top-notch faculty members committed to improving the field as a whole. She quickly became exposed to innovative research techniques, like those of Dr. Andrea Berlin (no relation, Katie says), who created a […]